mozilla

today i updated mozilla to 1.3 and when i go to run mozilla from an xterm i hear my hd spin up but it just "quits" no error or anything. when i run a "top" in a terminal beside it i see "mozilla-bin" but then after about 3-4 seconds all the "mozilla-bin" entries disappear and nothing is loaded. i rebooted after the update. now i "downgraded" to mozilla 1.2.1

Re: mozilla

I did as well but there were some unstatisfied dependencies (that dont show up originally when attempting to install - but when trying to run - do) - a lib file if I recall correctly (something I obviously dont install).

I grabbed the source and compiled myself without the xtra needed libs. N works no prob.

Re: mozilla

hmmm never had any trouble with the arch mozilla package you may need to uninstall what ever mozilla you have then remove your /opt/mozilla afterwards and then reinstall the 1.3b

alternatively you could use the mozilla PKGBUILD in /usr/abs/networking to upgrade. that way you will get a much lighter package than you would straight compiling which sticks you with both the lib and includes for mozilla which you generally do not need.

Re: mozilla

I have not managed to nail down the problem. Thought I had it for a while when I found pkgs called mozilla-lib and mozilla-include that where not installed by pacman. Installed them manually but it didn't make any difference.. .. In lack of further ideas I downgraded to 1.2.1

"Plurality should not be assumed without necessity" or "keep it simple" - William of Ockham (1285-1349)

Re: mozilla

Here's what worked for me. After uninstalling the mozilla pkg and deleting the /opt/mozilla directory I renamed the .mozilla directory in my home directory then installed mozilla. It started right up after that. This is odd but I figured it was because I had run a beta on this particular system. You will need to reinstall the flashplayer plugin too.

Re: mozilla

I posted (just this afternoon) a mozilla-1.3 pkg with gtk2 and xft support in the incoming section. It might work for you. I've only been able to test it on two machines. It has the PKGBUILD so you can install locally. The install will overwrite the current (if any) mozilla and, IMHO you should uninstall mozilla first.

Also, it will probably require the recent upgrades and especially the last release of XFree.

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Didn't work either :?. I didn't add the stuff about xft that the readme specified but the fonts rendered beutifully anyway (until it froze that is).

You probably know this but having the xft-mozilla only named as mozilla (the xft- being in the relase number) causes a regular pacman -S mozilla to start downloading the current mozilla-1.3-1 instead. The easy hack is to move the custom section in pacman.conf to the top (so that packman checks there first)..

Your post actually solved my problem in an quite unexpeted way: I hadn't realised that the tarballs in incoming contained pkgbuilds and had thus failed in installing my fauvorite browser phoenix.. Well, I'm writing this in phoenix Allthough this doesn't explain the mozilla problem I'm happy to write it off for now..

"Plurality should not be assumed without necessity" or "keep it simple" - William of Ockham (1285-1349)

Re: mozilla

Mork wrote:

Didn't work either :?. I didn't add the stuff about xft that the readme specified but the fonts rendered beutifully anyway (until it froze that is).

You probably know this but having the xft-mozilla only named as mozilla (the xft- being in the relase number) causes a regular pacman -S mozilla to start downloading the current mozilla-1.3-1 instead. The easy hack is to move the custom section in pacman.conf to the top (so that packman checks there first)..

Your post actually solved my problem in an quite unexpeted way: I hadn't realised that the tarballs in incoming contained pkgbuilds and had thus failed in installing my fauvorite browser phoenix.. Well, I'm writing this in phoenix Allthough this doesn't explain the mozilla problem I'm happy to write it off for now..

a few points here.

pacman will install from a custom database over any package in the trees but if the version number and name are the same in both it will grab the package from the current/unofficial/unstable trees. you also have to sync your local package database with pacman and to do this you must have the custom PKGBUILD for the custom package. It sounds confusing but it is really very easy to setup and use a local custom package tree.

next...incoming is a stoage area basically. packages contributed by users go here and if the contributor is following instructions found elsewhere on this forum and soon to be documented there should be no .pkg.tar.gz packages in the tree. contributed package should consist of the package, filelist, and PKGBUILD within a directory carrying the base package name which is then tarballed up. it is easier for us maintainers to deal with the packages that way and it keeps the warez fools from upload crud into incoming

Re: mozilla

pacman will install from a custom database over any package in the trees but if the version number and name are the same in both it will grab the package from the current/unofficial/unstable trees.

Ok, the packages are named mozilla-1.3-1 and mozilla-1.3-xft. I actually tried installing with the complete package name (pacman -S mozilla-1.3-xft) this resulted in the message "not found in sync db"... the only way i could get the package installed with pacman -S was placing the custom-section at the top of the pacman.conf (I did sync the package database and it worked with the phoenix package)..

Good info about incoming (sure will consider it when I try to create my first package), anyway all I was saying was that it took me a while to figure out where those PKGBUILD-files could be hiding

"Plurality should not be assumed without necessity" or "keep it simple" - William of Ockham (1285-1349)

Re: mozilla

to pacman -S with a custom package set you must have the PKGBUILD for the package(s) in /usr/abs/local and the packages themselves go in /home/custompkgs

then you must sync the two using the gensync command mentioned in the pacman.conf and the custom entry must be uncommented in the conf as well. gensync will create a local database file in your custom package tree.

once this is done you can issue the pacman -Syu command to get pacman to sync with your newly formed database. then you can install packages from your custom database with the -S option.

of course if you have all of the dependencies already installed then pacman -A <pkgname-pkgversionhere>.pkg.tar.gz will work just fine (or the -U option if -A fails).

edit: using the custom package tree is described in the pacman conf file though it could use some work all of the necessary instruction are there to do what i mentioned above)

Re: mozilla

The package name confusion is probably my fault as it is the same as the default mozilla just the archive name has the xft. I couldn't decide which was better, name the package different and build in a different directory or simply let it replace the mozilla package. I thought most users would rather replace mozilla so I used the simplest method. There would also be some issues with building it in a different pkg name and directory. Since it's stored outside the standard repositories, I felt this shouldn't matter too much.

Re: mozilla

jon wrote:today i updated mozilla to 1.3 and when i go to run mozilla from an xterm i hear my hd spin up but it just "quits" no error or anything. when i run a "top" in a terminal beside it i see "mozilla-bin" but then after about 3-4 seconds all the "mozilla-bin" entries disappear and nothing is loaded

I can tell that this is exacly what is happening when I did upgrade my mozilla to 1.3.I did run pacman -Syu first then tried again yesterday to makepkg to compile it myself, then pacman -A mozilla...pkg.tar.gz with the same result.1.2 is working great, just wonder if this happens for other peoples aswell

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xor wrote:

I can tell that this is exacly what is happening when I did upgrade my mozilla to 1.3.I did run pacman -Syu first then tried again yesterday to makepkg to compile it myself, then pacman -A mozilla...pkg.tar.gz with the same result.1.2 is working great, just wonder if this happens for other peoples aswell